Wednesday, January 11, 2006

From weekend to weekend

I can take whatever school throws at me, as long as I have the weekends. Then I can spend time with friends or family and just relax, without having the weight of school's homework hanging over me... at least till saturday night. I don't even want to think about what the world would be like without weekends, but is this way of living and making my way throughout life healthy or right? Maybe there's a way to avoid dolefullness through the week, and not live so much for the weekends.
First, I'll identify what's wrong with not being able to wait for weekends. There's the lack of focus during the week which is direly needed, because of school. There's also the mind set of thinking I can only be happy if it's the weekend which puts me into a worse mood during the week. Since I'm unable to think of the positives of an infatuation for the weekends, I'll conclude that, if I want to aspire to better moods and having a better outlook on school, I best be seeing if I can change something.
One solution might be to not have so much fun or relax as much during the weekends, but I think that there will be a more preferred solution without sacrificing the motivation for weekends. Enrolling in more pleasureable or interesting classes would help along with working out my time to achieve the absence of procrastination. This will help me have more free time during the week even till right before a test or the due date of a project. Another goal might be to constantly remind myself of how important school is and that it will only last another year and a half till I get to see how difficult college really is, or I could look forward to a break from school after high school for a while if I decided to work. These can all also be coupled with the idea that how hard I work will hopefully reflect how much easier I'll make it on myself later on. So, it's true. There can be life and happiness found during the week.
After struggling through the sinking mud of my sophomore year I've decided it is time to find a bridge and change for the better. Not only am I taking more desirable classes, but I am also having a hopeful, positive attitude with my schooling. This has left me with an increased amount of confidence, self-esteem, and cheerfulness. Living off weekends reminds me too much of any addiction. Instead of seeing the next weekend when I look into the future, I see my potential and then create my future.

Saturday, January 07, 2006

Games, Sports and Competition

What is the point of games and sports? Were they created to see who was better? To see who could win? Dictionary.com says sports are: Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively; it also says: An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively. Maybe this is why they're so commonly played among the competitive. Or were sports and games invented to relieve stress and just have fun? The definition of games has to do with an acitivity for entertainment or enjoyment; a pasttime, along with a competitive activity or sport with contending players. I'd like to think that sports and games were created for fun, because I don't like competition, but after seeing the sports definition and part of the definition of games I began to wonder.
If I were to say competition is an addiction I'd say it's the worst legal one, aside from caffeine, that's not socially and ethically taboo. I see plenty of people all the time who are turned into a fat glob of ego when they're at high school sports games. This does not make the game any funner except for the people who think they're having fun bragging about how good their school's team is (and they often have nothing to do with it other than going to the same school). I find that competition is essentially pride-based whether it's a high school sport or the Olympics. On this basis I've decided I'm not going to try to have that style of school pride, because of what some people do, think, and say as a result of it. It's wrong when people have to think they are better than others to feel happy and in control. This brings such a false high that it has become addicting to some, just like any other addiction. Why can't people just be happy with their lives and have fun playing sports instead of thinking they should be happier, even if it is imminently temporary and addicting? This has an enormous impact on those they are putting down just like the addiction of a drug has an impact on the addict's loved ones.
Such sports and games are so amazing and can be a great deal of fun, I find it hard to believe that they were created with such a low objective in mind. Sports are one of the things I really like to do, but I'd rather have fun than enjoy comparing myself to others, no matter what the definitions say.